Improved mods foe eecoveeing lost anchoes



C'. 5 Wiz/5720]? @uiten tategatwt @ffice CHARLES BARTON WHITTEMORE, OF BOSTON, MASSAGE SETTS. Letters Patent No. 68,402, dated September 3, 186.7.

IMPROVED Moorr ron nncovnnmc LOST ANcHoRs.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

-Be it known that I, CHARLES BARTON vlfVnI'r'rni/Ionn, of Boston, in the county lof Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Mode of Recovering Lost Anchors 'and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing a vessel riding al: anchor, the latter being attached to a buoy aboard the vessel by lines passing through the anchor-ring. i I l v Figure 2 shows an anchor-cable which has parted from a'vessel, and which is attached to a buoy.

Figure 3 is a top view, showing the ratchets and drums for receiving and paying out the buoy-lines, which are attached to the anchor and cable. I

Figure 4 is a perspective view, showing a mode of drawinga cable through thering ofuan anchor, preparatory to raising the latter.

Similar letters of reference in dicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to provide a vessel with means by which 'anchors can b'e easily recovered should they part their cables at any point between -the windlass andA anchor-ring.

The nature of my invention consists in the employment of supplemental anchor-lines, which are Wound upon suitable paying-out drums, and passed through the anchor-rings, so that in casting an anchor the lines will pay out with the anchor-cable, and, should the latter part, thc lines will lrun off their drum, and carry` overboard a .buoy that will mark the spot where the anchor parted, as will bc hereinafter described.

It also consists in so applying supplemental lines to an anchor, said lines having a buoy or float attached to them, that should the cable part at a point below the surface of the water, another cable can b'e readily sent down and drawn through the anchor-ring, by which the anchor can be recovered, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying-drawings, A represents a common anchor, and a the ring thereof, to which the cable B is securely fastened. The cable passes through the hawse-hole Zi to and around thewindlass C. in the usual well-known manner. To each davit D, inside of the gunwales, I apply a drum, E, having a ratchet-wheel, c, on one end, into the teeth of which a pawl, d, engages. This pawl will allow the drum to pay off its lines g g freely, but will prevent the drum from turning-backward when not required todo so. The lines g g, which are wound upon thedrum E, are not permanently secured to it, but will run entirely off should the anchorcable part. These linesgg are carried through the hawse-hole along with their cable B, and passed through the anchor-ring, after the manner of applying a pulley-rope to its block.' At a suitable point the lines g g are attached to the cable B by a slip-loop at z', said loop'being fastened to cable, so that, should the cable break or part between this loop andthe vessel, there will be a surplus of cable above the loop. This loop attachment will admit of the recovery of the anchor by the old vcable by simply drawingnp, by means of the lines g g, the end of this old cable. Should` the anchor-cable part at a point which is below the water, that is to say, should it part between the loop z' and the anchor, a new cable must be used, which is passed d own and drawn through the anchor-ring by means of the lines g.

To mark the place of the anchor4 I employ a buoy, G, of suitable form and size, which is. attached to the lines by means of a rope, h, of proper length, so that, whenan anchor-cable parts, andthe vessel iioats from the place, the lines gg will run oif their drum or drums, and carry overboard 'the buoy G, so that persons canv afterward return, find the buoy, and raise thc anchor. As hereinbefore stated, the lines g g are applied to the ring of the anchor, s'o thatthey may be drawn back and'forth through it, like the movement of`a rope through a pulley-block; consequently it willbe seen that when the buoy is found, and the lines g drawn' up, a cable may be sent down and drawn through the ring of the anchor, 'as shown in tig. 4, by which cablethe anchor can be raised and recovered,

It will not be necessary to employ a second cable if the anchor-cable parts at a point above the loop z', for, in this case, the end of the cable can be drawn up means of the lincsg g; but should the cable break below the loop, then the second cable must be used as stated.

` The buoys G may be stowed away in convenient places near the bow of the vessel, so as to be out of the samt 2 Way, and so as to be drawn overboard when au anchor parts' its cable. The lines which attach the buoys to the lifting lines g g are passed over the gunwales, and attached to these lifting-lines after the anchor is droppedv audits cable paid out ten or ifteen fathoms more than the depth of the water.

v Each one of the drums or reels E upon whiclrthe lifting-lines are wound shouldbe of such size as to contain all the buoy-line; and the ratchet and pawl should be so constructed and applied to each drum as to prevent the Weight'of the lines and force of water from unreeling the lines. A crank may hc used for winding the lines upon the reels or drums when the pawls are -rased from their ratchctdvhcels. The reels may be portable or stationary, as circumstances require. l

Having described my invention, what I cla-ilu as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. The supplemental lifting-line, in combination with an anchor-cable, said line being passed through the anchor-ring or its equivalent, and so arranged as to be paid out with the anchor-cable, substantially as described.v 2. The buoy, in combination with the supplemental lifting-line, applied to the anchor and its cable, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. I

3. The combination of the lifting-line y, anchor-cable B, and loop z', or its equivalent, substantiallyvas and for the purposes set forth. A

Witness my hand in the matter of my application for a patent for a mode of recovering lost anchors. CHARLES BARTON WHITTEMORE. Witnesses:

Griso. W. BLATcI-IFQRD, WM. GGDSAL. 

